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Chapter 1128 Spreading Songs

"And the Khan, I want to ask you something."

A middle-aged man with dark skin asked timidly, "Some farmers in our village have their own land, and some wealthy families have taken half of it. How should these be divided? If it is not involved, the remaining land will definitely be less than ten acres per person."

"If they are involved, there will definitely be conflicts."

Shi Luodie frowned, "Didn't I just say that? All the land in Ji County belongs to me. From the moment I occupied Ji County, none of you will have any land. All the land is under my control."

"Within these ten days, I will send a hundred soldiers to each village to provide support."

"These people will confiscate the property of the so-called wealthy families in your village, and all their property will be returned to the Khan. All the servants, housekeepers, and maids of the wealthy families will be sent home. If there is a deed, the people can ask this team of soldiers for help, and they will help you get it back."

"If anyone dares to obstruct your land distribution, he will be killed without mercy."

The murderous order made everyone's heart tremble. They did not doubt the courage of the Turkic Khan at all.

Although they knew that the Khan might not stay here for long, and some of them were so-called wealthy families, they still did not dare to disobey the Turkic orders. As for whether they would get the land back in the future, they did not know.

Now we can only do what the Khan says, otherwise the Turkic soldiers will not show mercy.

Shi Luodie had no choice. There were many things to do when it came to dividing the land. The conditions of each village were different, and the people were different. The specific conditions of each household, some rich families might have become rich through hard work and thrift.

There are also some lazy gamblers who lost their ancestral property because of their own lack of ambition.

He couldn't do everything, otherwise it would take several months just to implement it in Ji County. He couldn't stay here for long, so he could only simply draw a path and reshuffle the cards.

Ask for a less fair solution, ten acres per person.

Sure enough, as soon as the voice fell, someone boldly asked: "Great Khan, some families have more men, some have more women and children, and the fields are fertile and lean, far and near, flat and sloping. How should we deal with this?"

"And what about those wealthy families whose properties were confiscated? What should we do with them?"

Shi Luodie nodded secretly. There was too much room here. People who could ask such questions were those with a slightly more positive mind. By blocking these operating spaces, they could take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for redistribution and take care of the people as much as possible.

Shi Luodie did not specifically praise the questioner because that would harm him instead.

Instead, he glanced at everyone calmly, pointed with his finger and said, "This is simple. For the elderly, the weak, women and children, try to assign them to places close to home, or to flat land or fertile fields. For those who have many young and strong people at home and have good legs and feet, try to choose those who are farther away and thinner."

"Your Han books all say that the way of heaven is to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency; the way of man is to reduce the deficiency and serve the surplus. Of course, we should abandon the way of man and follow the way of heaven. The strong should bear more, and the weak should be taken care of a little more."

"As a Turk, I understand this principle. Don't you understand it?"

"As for the wealthy families whose properties were confiscated, we should also leave them a way out, and give them ten acres each."

Some people who had read books and had some knowledge of propriety and morality slowly lowered their heads, their faces flushed red.

Thinking about the affairs of the common people, sometimes there are too many trivial matters, and we cannot indulge them blindly. Shi Luodie finally said: "This Khan will issue an order. If there is a dispute when dividing the land, all the relevant people, including the village elders, will be caned regardless of right or wrong."

"If you make a big fuss, I will kill you. I am not an official of yours. The land distribution this time is already a huge benefit. You should take as much as I give you. Plant wherever you are allocated. If you dare to make a noise, I will kill you with swords and arrows."

Hundreds of village elders shuddered all over, and they had a better understanding of this Turkic emperor who had some conscience but was decisive in killing.

After answering a few more questions and setting the rules, Shi Luodie said to the Han clerks he had called in, "Write down the few rules that the Khan has just drawn up, and use them as the standard for this land distribution, and send them out for implementation."

"And let all the people know that some people who can read and write can also supervise."

"Finally, add a ballad below the notice, requiring at least half of the people in each village to recite it. Otherwise, all the land will be taken back and given to neighboring villages."

Well.
The last sentence made everyone worried, and they all looked at the people around them nervously.

"But don't worry. You know that ordinary people are illiterate. The ballad only has five sentences and is catchy. You can remember it as long as you listen to it a few times."

Later, Shi Luodie adapted the song "Welcome the King of Chuang" which was sung all over the country into "Welcome the Khan":

“In the morning, they seek promotion; in the evening, they seek reunification; these days, it is difficult for poor people to survive.

The gates were opened early to greet the Khan, and the officials, both big and small, were happy. They slaughtered cattle and sheep, prepared wine, and opened the city gates to welcome the Khan. The Khan came and divided the land.

Eat his mother, drink her mother, and sweat profusely if you don’t eat enough.

No need to serve, no need to pay taxes, everyone can live happily. "

When Shi Luodie sang this very catchy ballad, the eyes of the village elders and dozens of Han clerks in the city tower widened.

Many of them were familiar with history books, and of course they knew about the Turkic people's behavior of dividing land. After this jingle spread, countless people would be crazy. Even if the other side was a foreign prairie wolf, I'm afraid that the people everywhere were secretly looking forward to the arrival of the Turkic army.

You have to know that this era is not the era of the Qin and Han dynasties when the Han and the Yi peoples were on a warpath, but an era when the Hu people moved south and lived together in the north for hundreds of years. It is no exaggeration to say that a large part of the people present have mixed Hu and Han blood.

Even the Li royal family has the blood of the Xianbei descendants.

This origin and background make them not so hostile to the people of the grassland. No matter whether they are Hu or Han, they will follow whoever can make the people's life better.

To take a step back, even if they did not ally with the Turks, they probably could not raise their swords or guns to fight against the "bandits" who had freed them and given them land.

Many people in the document looked at each other in despair. They had originally thought that these grassland barbarians knew nothing and could only kill people with swords and guns. If they offended the nobles, the Turks would be doomed no matter how strong their troops and horses were.

Even though the land was divided before, they didn't care.

This kind of thing takes a lot of time. The longer the Turkic army stays here, the longer the Tang army has to prepare. If the heroes of the Central Plains dynasty use this trick to win people's hearts, it would be really scary.

Fortunately, the other side was the Turks, and even if the Han people got the land, they would not be able to support them loyally.

When the Tang army arrives and the Turks are defeated, these fields can naturally be recovered. Now it is terrible. The Turkic Khan has made Jizhou a model and spread it through ballads, which will surely arouse great enthusiasm among the people who have lost their land.

There are only 80,000 people in Ji County, of which about 10% are aristocratic families, wealthy gentry, and the rest are poor people. If there were only the people in this area, they could still be suppressed by the larger Hebei aristocracy or the aristocracy in the Tang Dynasty.

If this policy were to be extended, there would be six or seven million people in Hebei Province alone.

Even if 10% of them were aristocratic families and their vassals, there would still be nearly 6 million people left. When everyone had their land distributed, even if the court intervened, they would not be able to hand it over, as soon as the court dared to use force.

This force will destroy the world and turn the Tang Dynasty upside down.

By then, the Tang Dynasty would have difficulty protecting itself, and with the addition of the Turks on the grassland, the combination of internal and external troubles would have been a disaster.

Some of the clerks saw fear and terror in the other party's eyes, and at the same time, they felt helpless. Many of them were from poor families, so they were naturally happy about the distribution of land.

But this kind of thing is done by the enemy.

Thinking of the great disaster brewing behind this, they closed their eyes in pain, as if they saw a storm sweeping in. Facing the 300,000 Turks who were as fierce as wolves and tigers, they had no choice but to take it one step at a time.

Finally, before Shi Luodie left, he left one last cold and ruthless word: "Within ten days, all the fields must be distributed. Otherwise, if any village is not properly distributed, all the people in that village will be killed, and you will also die."

Tyranny, cruelty, injustice
The little bit of good feelings these people initially had for Shi Luodie were completely washed away by this cold and ruthless order of collective responsibility, and they cursed Shi Luodie in their hearts with the most vicious words.

If this man was a Han general, they would fight back even if they died here. Facing the iron hoofs of foreign races, they had no chance at all. There were only 70,000 to 80,000 people in Ji County, while there were 200,000 to 300,000 Turkic cavalry.

This angered the Turkic Khan, and he really dared to massacre all the people in the county.

Although the other party seemed to have good intentions and was dividing the land, but a foreigner led a large army to invade the Tang Dynasty. If you don't attack cities, kill people, set fires, rob and brothel, why are you playing the role of a saint and dividing the land?

Who knows what the other party is planning, maybe it is to bring chaos to the world, but it will not be a universal disaster.

So, when good people do good things, they will be criticized in various ways; but when bad people do good things, no one dares to say anything against it.

After Shi Luodie let them leave, they, under the leadership of their respective Turkic teams, came to the tens of thousands of people under the city, found the locations of their respective villagers, and told people about various policies that made people surprised, astonished, angry, or worried.

In the end, tens of thousands of people dispersed in a mixed mood of joy and worry.

Some of them secretly knelt down and kowtowed to Shi Luodie on the city wall of Ji County, saying something unknown. During the whole process, Shi Luodie and the leaders of various tribes on the grassland stood on the city wall and watched silently. Tens of thousands of Turkic troops also stood quietly nearby.

(End of this chapter)